Triumph of Newspeak at the Pentagon: telling the truth is considered dishonorable behavior. Colonel Says Speaking Out Cost a Medal [The former chief military prosecutor for terrorism trials at Guantanamo Bay, Air Force Col. Morris] Davis's dispute with Air Force
Mark Graber writes at Balkinization, When thinking about the role of courts, lawyers, legal scholars and citizens should not automatically treat Brown as a paradigm and such cases as Dred Scott, Hepburn, Pollock and others as anomalies. Seen from broader
I have a collector car I won't drive in the snow, so I'm forced to use a battery tender to keep the battery alive while it collects dust during the winter. In years past, I've used a variety of chargers/tenders
An Internal Revenue Service employee snooped on the tax records of about 200 celebrities and athletes, confessing to investigators that he accessed the confidential material out of "curiosity."
General Motors Corp. will furlough entire shifts of workers at some truck factories and may move them to nearby car plants as it restructures to adjust to a rapidly changing U.S. market brought on by $4 per gallon gasoline.
CNN reporter Jessica Yellin said that during the run up to the Iraq war, White House reporters were pressured to write positive pieces about President Bush and kill negative stories. She later clarified that she was referring to MSNBC news
A proposed state constitutional amendment defining a fertilized human egg as a person has been certified for the November ballot, moving Colorado a step closer to an election battle over abortion rights.
A U.S. Marine handed out coins promoting Christianity to Muslims in the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, outraged Sunni officials said Friday. The U.S. military responded quickly, removing a trooper from duty pending an investigation.
Bob Dole's email to Scott McClellan yesterday: There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don't have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues. No, your type soaks up
Gaining ground this political season is a proposed League of Democracies designed to strengthen support for the next president's overseas agenda and ensure a global leadership role for the United States. John McCain, the virtually certain Republican presidential nominee, has
Hillary Rodham Clinton says she expects her marathon Democratic race against Barack Obama to be resolved next week, as superdelegates decide who is the stronger candidate in the fall. "I think that after the final primaries, people are going to
The existence of an unknown Amazon tribe has been revealed in a dramatic photo showing three members of the group in a forest clearing, two aiming their bows at a passing plane. Discovery of the tribe near the border between
Six young men died last year after brain-eating amoebas crawled up their noses. The bad blobs attack swimmers in warm, fresh water. The bad blobs -- known as Naegleria fowleri or N. fowleri -- thrive in warm, fresh water all
A Middletown, Ohio, man whose right testicle was removed during a 2007 medical procedure has sued the doctor after being informed it wasn't cancerous as he was led to believe.
Former Governor of Arkansas and former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said in an interview with the Huffington Post's Will Mari that libertarianism is "not an American message," adding that he considers it to be a "soulless type of economic conservatism"
More than two dozen scholars will travel from as far as Italy and Portugal to study in St. Olaf's Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library this summer. The library features the largest collection of works by and about the 19th
